Quotes by Will Durant

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  • It is an illuminating sign of beauty's generation by desire, that when the object of desire is securely won, the sense of its beauty languishes; few men are philosopher enough to desire what they have, and fewer still can find beauty in what no longer stirs desire.
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  • Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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  • Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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  • Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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  • Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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  • One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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